Swift's advice to servants. [graphic]. Plt. 1

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Title: Swift's advice to servants. [graphic]. Plt. 1
Contributor: Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [15 February 1824]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. [illegible] by S.W. Fores, Piccadilly
Abstract: Five persons, having been seated around a table laden with soup tureens and candlesticks, fall backwards, the servant having pulled back their chairs. The servants laugh at the scene from the hallway (right).
Description: Title from heading above image.
Date of publication burnished partially from plate.
One line of text below image: "While your master is saying grace, take the chairs from behind the company & leave the room."
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Plate mark: 1827.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xvii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15 x 19 cm, on sheet 21 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1824
Etchings England London 1824
Watermarks (Paper) 1827
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Practical jokes
Servants
Subjects: Practical jokes
Servants
England > 1824
England > London > 1824
1827

Access: Public
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